Improved cooking-stove



' STATES OFFICE.

DAVID 'HASTINGS AND SOLOMON SIKES, OF,DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

.IMPROVED COOKING -ST,OVE.

Specication ofvLetters Patent No. 470, dated November. 23, 1837.

To all whom it may' concern Be it. known that we, DAvroHAs'riNGsaand SOLOMONSIKES, both-of Deerfield, inthe county of Franklin and State of `Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Cooking-Stove; and we do hereby declare that-the 'following is a'f-ull and exact description.

lst. The bottom A is to be made of cast iron, the back partof which isto be two feet square, or of any other convenient size, and the front part, B, an oval, projecting from the two corners of the square part of the bottom, and extending around in front, so as to form a place sufficient for the fire Y and hearth.

2nd. The perpendicular sides of the stove are to correspond, as to length and height, or nearly so, with the square part of the bottom so far as relates to the sides on the square part of the bottom; but the sides on the oval part of the bottom are to bend out, and form each a half cylinder, extending around and resting on the hearth, or loval part of the bottom; having however the upper and front quarter of the half cylinder wanting; or in other words, the cylindrical parts of the sides, should be so made as to form a sort of step C between the bottom and top of the stove, and ar notch upon which the top is in part to rest. The notch is to be a little deeper horizontally than the center of the half cylinder and a little above the center. The square part and the cylindrical part of each side to be united in one and form one entire side. The space between the edges of the half cylinders, when erected on the bottom of the stove, is to be occupied with folding-doors D to the stove. A door E also may be made in the side of the half cylinder, on the right-hand side of the stove, to put wood in lengthwise, and for other conveniences.

3d. The top F of the stove is to be cast, so as to conform to the size and shape of the upper surface of the stove, as defined by the outlines of the edges of the sides of the stove, and is to be cast whole, or in parts, and so as to t on the front part of the stove, forming the bottom. and back of the step before mentioned, and resting on the notches aforesaid, in the cylindrical parts of the sides. There are to be two circularl holes G in the top part of the stove, in the step part thereof, at or near the cylindrical Sides, leaving. only the width of an inch or two inthetop, between the side. and the hole. -Said holesV are to 4be, ofy any convenient diameter-and extend back near top the ovenpart yof the stove. There is also to be alhole .H in t-hetop over the oven .and fixed as far forwardfas convenient,-so that a boiler `set in it may be. as` near the fire as it cant be conveniently.

Thegfront holes,.in the steppartbf thefV stove, over the placesfwheretheire ,is` to be kindled, should be furnished with hollowk cylinders I permanently attached to the top, and surrounding the holes Vand extending back toward the oven, so as to cut out a portion of the back', of the .step part of the top. The said cylinders are described and are to be made as follows: Those portions lof the sides of the-said cylinders next to the oven, and between the back of the step part of the stove and the oven, are to be cut out or cast wanting those 'portions ofthe i cylinders, except a narrow rim at the top,"

for the inner cylinder to turn upon. The said cylinders are to have half bottoms J on the sides cut out, and next to thev oven. The bottoms are to be fastened to the sides of the cylinders, by means of rivets through the ears, to the bottoms and through the sides of the cylinders, or any other wav thought best. t

There are to be inner cylinders K made like the outer ones, having openings and half bottoms on the insides and nicely fitted in the outer ones, so that they can be turned in the s ame, and when kturned half around,l they will form cylinders, with sidesfand the outer ones, vso far as respects the open-' ings in the sides and the half bottoms, and they should have rims at the tops jutting over with grooves in them for to turn on'the outer cylinders.

The square part of the stove is designed for the oven. The oven, O, is formed by Y an inner set of sides to the square part, and inclosed bythe outer sides, leaving a space of one or more inches, under, above and back of the oven, between the oven and the outer sides, for the re and smoke'to pass under or over the Voven and vout at the flue at the back side of the stove. At the right hand side of the stove is the oven door, which opens to the right. The oven is to eXtend back to the left handj side Vof the stove, so that there shall be no space between the oven and outer side.

4th. There are to be tWo dampers With handles attached, one to fit and close the passage between the oven and the back side of the stove, moving in grooves on the inner sides of the stove just over and touching the top of the oven, the other itted so as to close the passage betweenV the oven next to the fire and the'cylinders, so that by opening or shutting one or the other, the smoke and heat is turned under or over the'oven. ln the oval part of the bottom the space bebottom.

rIhe applicants claim Letters Patent, only The cylinders I and K, both outer and inner, Vmade and constructed as before def scribed, and placed and used in the manner aforesaid.

DAVID HASTINGS. SOLOMON SIKES.

Witnesses D. WILLARS, ALMON BRAINARD. 

